“I always love the way you lie to me, Alpha.”
He lied... He lied to me when I left for college, and all his promises to be a better mate were nothing but lies.
There he was, dancing with her, looking at her with love while our packs and the leaders of different packs watched with pride and awe at the beautifully matched couple.
The pack’s thunderous claps and howls of approval when he proclaimed her as his mate echoed through the halls of the mansion and out through the windows. Her, not me.
Finally, he’s going to mate with the one he loves but not the one he was promised to.
His gaze met mine as a lone teardrop escaped the corner of my eye. His own widened as he just realized his divinely ordained mate was present for this travesty and I had been watching all along.
I couldn’t endure another second of this hell as I forced myself to smile at him before I stood up and ran out of the hall in agony. My wolf’s defenses were down. She was curled up and whimpering, but there was nothing I could do to numb the pain. Not this time.
“Adassah!”
I heard him call my name as sure as my heels clicked on the marble floor, but I couldn’t stop.
“Adassah,” he yelled, but I only quickened my steps.
“Adassah, stop!”
Too late. A forceful, substantial mass crashed into me and my body flew up in the air. It threw me backward and I hit the cement wall hard. The back of my head smacked the corner of a mount that held a giant brass wolf and blood ran down from my scalp into my eyes.
Within minutes, I heard the sirens of incoming emergency medical services and watched through my red-hazed vision as a stream of people came out of the mansion, shifting into their wolf form. He was far ahead of them, calling my name as he ran toward me.
Darkness threatened to take us and my wolf begged for salvation. As I let go and ceded to unconsciousness, my last sight was my handsome Alpha and his lying mouth telling me he was sorry. Too late, as his apologies meant nothing to me, and all his lies will die with me.
Lie To Me Alpha
I was standing beside the mall’s escalator, staring at my phone when I heard a loud thud like a heavy mass landed behind me with a whoosh. My phone fell out of my hand and clattered on the ground. “I’m sorr—"
“Happy birthday, sweetheart!”
“Awww, look, it’s our teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy Ada coming to the rescue,” Gia shrieks in that annoying drunk-girl way before giggling like a loon.
I learned the meaning of forever while staring into those green eyes, which I now realize belong to my mate. There is no emotion on his face to let me know what he’s feeling despite our wolves trying to break out of our bodies just so they could get to one another and hit up Bonetown.
“So, genius, how did you do on your tests today?”
My two best friends chatted as though everything in the world was normal as we walked to the bus stop. We missed the school bus again, so we had to take the city transit home. I was only half-listening to their chatter as my mind kept straying back to Matteo and our moment in the music room.
But my fantasy of finding a wolf of worth my time came crashing down and I wasted my drool for nothing. Ugh. Of all the rotten luck.